We understand the United States to be a democracy, founded upon a Constitution that affords us critical rights, and governed by the rule of law.

Yet for years, the NSA has exploited secret legal interpretations to undermine our privacy rights -- thus chilling speech and activism, and thereby threatening to subvert the very underpinnings of our democracy itself.

This Tuesday, February 11th, thousands of websites and organizations are joining together to demand an end to mass spying.

They range from the left (sites like DailyKos) to right (the Koch Brothers' group FreedomWorks), with plenty in between. Together, they wield a tremendous amount of influence.

On Tuesday, February 11th, we are mobilizing thousands to call on Congress to:

Pass the USA FREEDOM Act, which would end the bulk collection of Americans' phone records and institute other key reforms.
Defeat the so-called FISA Improvements Act, which would entrench -- and potentially expand -- the spying.
Create additional privacy protections for non-Americans.
End the NSA's subversion of encryption and other data security measures.